Death Work
Police, Trauma and the Psychology of Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19987986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent E Henry (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 414 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Death Work (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/med:psych/9780195157659.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4230961257 |
| Open Library | OL7390374M |
| ISBN | 9780195157659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
This title explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers’ encounters with death. Police can encounter death frequently in the course of their duties, and these encounters may range from casual contacts with the deaths of others to the most profound and personally consequential confrontations with their own mortality. Using the ‘survivor psychology’ model as its theoretical base, this insightful and provocative research ventures into a previously unexplored area of police psychology to illuminate and explore the new modes of adaptation, thought, and feeling that result from various types of death encounters in police work. The psychology of survival asserts that the psychological world of the survivor—one who has come in close physical or psychic contact with death but nevertheless managed to live—is characterized by five themes: psychic numbing, death guilt, the death imprint, suspicion of counterfeit nurturance, and the struggle to make meaning. These themes become manifest in the survivor’s behavior, permeating his or her lifestyle and worldview. Drawing on extensive interviews with police officers in five nominal categories—rookie officers, patrol sergeants, crime scene technicians, homicide detectives, and officers who survived a mortal combat situation in which an assailant or another officer died-the author identifies the impact such death encounters have upon the individual, the police organization, and the occupational culture of policing
Casual · Criminology · Feeling · Homicide · Officer · Poison control · Political science · Psychic · Suicide prevention · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Medicine · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Death · New York [MESH] · Occupational Health [MESH] · Police [MESH] · Police psychology · Psychology [mesh] · Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |